Romance and Comparative Literature
S = Faculty
Stephen Gendzier, Co-Chair
Luis Yglesias, Co-Chair
French and Comparative Literature
Stephen Gendzier
Enlightenment. Diderot. French-English
18th-century crosscurrents. Dada and surrealism.
Jane Hale, French Area Head and Undergraduate Advising Head
French and comparative literature.
Twentieth-century French fiction and drama. Beckett, Queneau.
Literature and painting. Francophone literature of Africa and
the Caribbean.
Erica Harth, Advisor to French Minors
Seventeenth- and 18th-century
French prose. Cultural studies and comparative literature. Feminism
and gender studies.
Edward Kaplan
French romanticism. Michelet.
Hugo. Modern French poetry and theory. Baudelaire. Jabès.
Bonnefoy. Religion and literature. Translation.
Michael Randall
Late medieval and Renaissance
poetry, prose, and philosophy.
Italian and Comparative
Literature
Richard Lansing, Comparative Literature Area Head and Undergraduate Advising Head, Italian Area Head and Undergraduate Advising Head
Dante. Italian and European
Renaissance. Courtly tradition. Modern Italian literature.
Spanish and Comparative
Literature
Dian Fox
Spanish medieval. Spanish golden
age (16th- and 17th-century) drama, prose, poetry. Cervantes.
James Mandrell, Spanish Area Head and Undergraduate Advising Head
Modern Spanish literature.
Don Juan. The picaresque. The historical novel. Genre and gender.
Literary theory.
Angela María Pérez
Colonial Latin American literature.
Luis Yglesias
Poetry and narrative: traditional,
modern, contemporary. Native American literature. Myth and folklore.
French
Linda Cregg-Nielsen
French language.
Hollie Harder
French language.
Esther Ratner
French language.
Jay Siskin, Language Program Coordinator
Foreign language pedagogy.
French and Francophone culture. French and Romance linguistics.
Italian
Paola Servino
Italian language.
Spanish
Armando Brito
Spanish language.
Victoria Cerrudo
Spanish language.
Dora Older
Spanish language.
Esther Ratner
Spanish language.
Nidia Schuhmacher
Spanish language.
S = Requirements
For course offerings and requirements
for concentration, see Comparative Literature, European Cultural
Studies, French, Italian, and Spanish.